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I do active recovery days. I weight lift a lot so its important to give my body a day to heal. I still walk the dogs, stretch, and do other things, but I dont actively lift or do cardio.

.... and after reading this I desperately need to go for Indian food. Sigh, too bad its two hours away! *angry first at rural community* Also, dont be afraid to throw out your left overs! Eat half of your plate, or until you are full, and dont feel that you have to bring the rest back with you. It isnt wasteful to get rid…

Amazing!!!!

I really suggest reading through this thread thats going on now: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/994529-success-tips-that-helped-you-the-most There are some amazing tips on there now that might help you on your journey.

http://onceamonthmom.com/ This website saved me. I dont have kids, but my husband is a farmer those can be 14 hour days, life is always crazy and weather dependent, and I have a fulltime job too. I was already trying to practice making in bulk and freezing my food but then I found this website. Its 8.00$ a month and…

1. Read Success Stories- I love looking at the pictures of little and huge losses. These are people with their own stresses, their own problems, their own time constrants. They did it. So can I. 2. Be honest with yourself- Be honest with what you goal is. Someone once told me to be set me weight loss goal, now set it again…

25 pounds IS a ton of progress, dont sell yourself short. You are doing amazingly.

You are doing fantastically! That is amazing progress!

Amazing work!

Huge changes! You were pretty before but now you look like makeup models- all those beautiful cheekbones and glowing skin!

Absolutely amazing. Congratulations on all your hard work!

"If you cheat and eat something bad, you might as well blow the whole day off, because its ruined" bad bad bad, I mean, I have nothing against cheating, or schedule cheat days, but just because you ate a Big Mac at lunch does not give you a license to eat a tub of ice cream at home. "The only way to look lean is cardio" Or…

I have a cheat week every few months... where I still eat mostly healthy, I just don't watch carbs but stay at calories. Otherwise I get burnt out, and frankly, my husband likes his lasagne, and I'm not cooking a whole meal I cant eat, lol. I think a cheat day once a week is too frequent. Maybe one cheat snack a week.....

Sometimes its good to build in a week of "food vacation", don't be awful, but let yourself indulge just a bit. I say build it in as part of the routine, like "two months good, one week off" That way there is a limit. You know you have to get back on the wagon, but hopefully it will both motivate you and keep you from…

Buy the Seinfeld book on how to sneak veggies to your kids. It works on my husband :D

I wasn't trying to be snarky, just straight up honest. I come from a pretty-snarky family though, so maybe it oozed out accidentally. :ohwell: I wish you all the best, truly, but I think you need to evaluate your various relationships with people. And then, on that list of relationships you think you need to have, add one…

Also, it can take a few months before you fat loss outpaces your muscle gain. You may be gaining muscle and your bones are probably become stronger, and denser... so it may not feel like you are losing weight. Ive reached similar plateaus and after a few months the fat starts to fall off. I do recommend joining a class, a…

Well, at 5'6'' and 115 lbs you probably shouldnt be losing more weight, especially if you are physically fit. Your plateau may be your way of saying that biologically its exactly where it wants to be to maintain functional fat (because you do need it for organ to run correctly) and to maintain functional musclemass.…

Aside from the fact that I think Simon sounds creepy... here is the truth If you feel that you have to have 12 relationships before you settle down, you've already doomed each one to fail, because you mentally set the block that "until its twelve, none of these will be right for me." Love is deciding every single morning…

Also, buy a food scale. Theyre pretty darn cheap at Walmart, and you'd be amazed at how much things really weigh! Particularly if you eating dense foods like cheese. Even fruit, I found I was really undererstimating that amount that I was eating, that was a lot of sugars and calories that I didnt think I was getting. If…

Are you eating enough? I know that seems counter intuitive but if you aren't eating enough to sustain your muscle gain during fat loss it can leave you tired. This was something I recently experienced. I have now started using a TDEE calculator to tell me how much I could eat instead of the My FitnessPal recommendation,…

I am a-ok with natural sugars- fruits and veggies I dont worry about at all.... but I'm not a moderation person either. So I totally understand. After a year of being fairly strict with myself I do indulge every once and a while. I had a heath bar the other day, I earned it, lol, but I only bought one, I had enough…

I'm trying to lose weight and tone. I weightlift. I eat my workout calories, but maintain the deficit set by MFP. I do P90X at a deficit. Granted, my weight has plateau'd after 20 pounds... but I have lost 2 inches at my waist while not losing weight. I can assume this means that I'm building muscle at the same pace I'm…

I can attest to ab ripper, however, it is important to strengthen the ENTIRE core. You can't have good abs without a good back- true story. Also, if you just want to have fun Belly Dance is amazingly effective and there are decent tutorials on youtube and various other sites.

1. Every time you want something sweet drink water, get up and walk, pop in some gum- all proven ways to kill a craving. For me, Ginger candy worked. The taste is so overwhelming that I could only have one, and then ginger, like toothpaste, lingers in your mouth. 2. Make low-cal, low glycemic load snacks- smoothies, low…

My mother has lived with Fibromyalgia for many years... she has found that losing weight, and cutting back on glucose and artificial sweeteners (for her this was just diet soda) really improved and helped to manage the amount of joint pain she was having. She still has to take medication sometimes, particularly in the…